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rumandraisin

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  1. What I find interesting is we never realised there were two separate orchestral pieces being used as the intro from 2006 to 2011. Monsters was used in some 2010 shows, we were hearing parts of Soul Monster all that time and never knew. Although the strings out of context do sound quite similar from both songs.
  2. Lotusflow3r was a late career masterpiece that sadly went by without much recognition. A genuinely well put together album unlike Planet Earth or 3121 which were more collections of songs. Prince spent a long time on Lotus working on the tracklist, and the mixing and mastering was spot on. Boom and Dreamer sound absolutely mental through big bassy speakers. Some of the guitar work is insane on that album. Highly recommend to anyone who hasn't listened, it's a really tight album. I think something happened behind the scenes though as after April 09 he sort of disappeared and stopped promoting it. Came back in the summer for a handful of shows then went again. Shame, with proper promotion and a big tour it could have been a really big album for him and Crimson and Clover might have done well, it had a nice (online released) video.
  3. Now we're talking. There really wasn't anything Prince couldn't do. And listen to the almighty thud of Michael B, who in an alternative universe did secure the role of Guns drummer.
  4. We don't know the vocal was done in 2010 and I highly doubt it. I'd say 2007, maybe he was still deciding how to sing it, working on different styles. The remix was made by Brain around 2010 wasn't it though. The crap about Axl being in the studio every year thing... 2008 he was AWOL, 2009 the same until the tour. 2010 they were on the road all year, 2011 at Rio doesn't Tommy say something to Axl like "dude I haven't seen you in a year". 12 they were on tour all year and band members repeatedly commented that they wanted to record. And so on. I dunno why years later there's this "Axl was in the studio every year recording vocals" myth.
  5. He was correct though. Axl said they were hoping to put out Silkworms soon, in 2013. And it turned out it was their next release, just 'soon' in Guns terms means 8 years later. But it did turn out to be their next single.
  6. As ever, thank you! Lost count of how many times I've read 97 onwards.
  7. I'd put money on the last time Axl recording vocals for Guns as being 2007, that last session adding bits for Chinese. Described as him bouncing round from song to song. Aside from Rock the Rock of course, which I thought was great!
  8. And the dozen or so songs Ashba wrote for Guns. I can't understand why they waste their time, they must know deep down Axl isn't going in to a studio anytime soon.
  9. It's not that bad to be honest. Its far better than the thing they put out for Hard Skool
  10. Not particularly. The first thing I thought was the reunion was confirmed was how we'd never get CD2 now and it'd be many many years, if any, to wait for new music. Which was accurate.
  11. Absolutely. It's everything I thought it would be, aside from an intro with those sinister strings.
  12. Some songs started shorter however. CD had the pointless intro and the guitar intro lengthened and of course Buckets solo added. IRS had the second solo, TWAT was stretched with Buckets solo. Riad had the intro added. It's hard to guess as we've got so little to go on. Seven or Thyme might've been epics, but then might have been reworked back into 4 minute tracks. The General might have been longer at one point. Who knows.
  13. They actually don't share the same orchestra bed. While it sounds similar they are two separate pieces. The General was used from 2006 to 11 as an intro and Monsters very rarely in 2010. In Canada for example iirc.
  14. Yeah after 3 years of whining and criticising the band yet still getting paid. Ironic that the most irritating outspoken member that couldn't stop slagging them off was the one who didn't get fired.
  15. True. But the context of Slash adding his parts is very different to Robin working everyday with a hungry new band of young talented people wanting to put their stamp on Guns back in 98. Slash probably added his parts one afternoon after being sent an MP3 of the old versions and bashed out a few licks. Whereas Robin and Bucket were in the studio for years reworking every minute detail and Axl was still invested.
  16. Oklahoma was still an instrumental by the time the discs were pressed in late 2001. Axl may have lyrics for the track but who knows if he ever got round to recording to them.
  17. It lived up to the hype for me. I'm very surprised how similar it was in my head to the final version, going from the string concert intro I really had it pretty spot on.
  18. With the care that went in to CD and taking in to account everything Axl went through for that album to even be released I can sort of understand his couldn't care less attitude with these releases. The copy and pasted "heys" on Hard Skool The 2 seconds of Robin on Perhaps. Clipping on General. There is probably a "the fans should be grateful" attitude going on combined with the band too scared to say anything to Axl.
  19. I'd love just the orchestra part as a bonus track, it's just such a cool sinister piece of music. In one if the threads when The Gen leaked someone did post a concert intro from 2010 and one from 2006, was it Greece 2006 I think. Either way both were very clean sounding with little audience sound and are probably the closest we'll get. It was the thread where it was shown that the strings from Monsters were used occasionally as the show intro.
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